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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction
2014-03-31 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that wiped out upwards of 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates. That's the hypothesis offered on Monday by researchers aiming to solve one of science's enduring mysteries: what happened at the end of the Permian period to cause the worst of the five mass extinctions in Earth's history. The scale of this calamity made the one that doomed the...
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Panels Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
2014-03-31 02:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress,...
The newest front in the war on teachers: public schools to mimic worst habits of charter schools
2014-03-30 23:00:09| Electronics - Topix.net
Like so many school districts across the nation which are scrambling to figure out how to divide a pie that isn't growing nearly fast enough to meet everyone's needs, the Philadelphia School District is in the middle of a protracted and often acrimonious contract dispute.
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Texas landowners fear the worst with Keystone XL pipeline
2014-03-30 06:00:23| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Deep in the heart of East Texas, gently sloping fields, fertile cropland and willowy pine trees stretch as far as the eye can see.
Gaia visionary advocates city living to sit out worst extremes of climate change
2014-03-30 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: People should give up on the English dream of a house and garden in the countryside and retreat into mega-cities to sit out the worst extremes of climate change, environmental guru James Lovelock said yesterday. Dr Lovelock, famed for his Gaia theory of the Earth as a self-regulating organism, says humanity should take inspiration from termites who build giant nests with air-conditioning towers to regulate the temperature. He cited Singapore as an example of a place where people had found a...
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